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July 11, 2012

Sweet Cherry Chicken Salad

Chicken salad is a nice light meal during the summer. You can add in veggies or fruit to give a little extra punch of flavor. Since we had some sweet cherries from our Bountiful Baskets order, I decided that I would make a nice sweet cherry chicken salad for our lunch. Ingredients: 3 cups chopped chicken (use leftover chicken or chicken from a can, whichever you prefer) 1/4 cup diced sweet onion 1/4 cup chopped celery (I like to include some celery leaves) 1/3 cup chopped sweet cherries (use more if you want a more prominent cherry flavor) 1/3 cup…

Roasted Baby Bok Choy

July 10, 2012

Heather L

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Roasted Baby Bok Choy

Posted in Gluten Free, and Homemaking

As you can see, I’m working my way through our Bountiful Baskets veggies. I had never cooked or eaten baby bok choy, so I wasn’t sure what exactly to do with it. (Sometimes these baskets make me feel like I’m on the Food Network show Chopped. You never know what you’re going to get. lol!) Many of the recipes that I was seeing online were for steamed bok choy, but I really wanted to try something different. I decided that I would try roasting the baby bok choy. The result was quite yummy. Once again, I was working with ingredients…

Veggie Frittata

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Since breakfast food was a bit scarce around the house this weekend, I needed to come up with something for Sunday morning breakfast that used what I had in the fridge. I knew that I wanted to use lots of veggies since we had so many beautiful ones from our Bountiful Baskets order. I took a look inside the fridge to see what I had… Ingredients: 4 eggs 1/4 cup milk 1 sweet onion 1 green pepper 1 small container of mushrooms left-over roasted cauliflower handful of grape tomatoes Parmesan cheese dried chives salt pepper dried parsley olive oil Directions:…

Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli

July 7, 2012

Heather L

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Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli

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Today, I picked up our Bountiful Baskets order, and I have to say that the organic baskets were wonderful this week. We received broccoli, cauliflower, cherries, mangoes, donut peaches, mushrooms, corn, purple kale, baby bok choy, celery, and cantaloupe. I also got a box of pineapple. The pineapple, mangoes, and peaches aren’t ripe yet, so that will give us a chance to really dig into all the other yummy fruits. Because I really want to take advantage of all of the yummy goodies this week, I decided to make some roasted cauliflower and broccoli for lunch. It’s been some time since I’ve made…

Learning Traditional Baking and Cooking Skills

July 6, 2012

Heather L

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Learning Traditional Baking and Cooking Skills

Posted in Homemaking, and Homesteading

One of the things that we’re currently working on in our home is learning more traditional baking and cooking skills. While I do know some about preserving, I thought it would be nice to jump into learning more skills such as yogurt making, sour dough baking, and creating homemade treats for the pups. I love kitchen gadgets – just ask anyone who knows me and they’ll confirm that. lol! Yet, this time, we’re going a bit old school as I don’t have fancy gadgets to make all of this work. The first thing that Munchkin attempted was making yogurt. She…